Downside of living on our street...

[Pete]

Just seen a car, and it blew me away. It's as cheap as chips but I can't have it.

I live on a street that always has more than it's fair share of trouble - the police even have their own parking bay!

Wouldn't last a week without being scratched - or worse. My missus had all the nearside panels on her motor daubed with paint remover a couple of years ago.

Bugger...

Check out this gorgeous motor - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/161083175092

[Scimitar]

Nice, in fact very nice

[Pete]

Sob, sob...

[Old Cruser]

Snazzy looking car that Pete, seems a good price - wonder what's wrong with it?

Daughter needs a new wheelchair and that's going to be 2 grand plus.

Our cars just gone in for it's MOT, not quite 3 years old yet - and failed!
So I'm carless until Monday (I hope it's no later)
Seems some spring has gone at the front and it's not safe to drive!
Been told we have been lucky as it could have failed the brakes 
First time ever this has happened.

[Fly]

That's bad news OC, our car is 8 years old and hasn't failed one MOT, yet 

[Old Cruser]

Got a vauxhall est on order Fly and having a hoist fitted in the back to lift the chair in (it's getting heavy for hubby to push up ramps, especially with his shoulder problems).
Have to admit it's the first I have ever had, I think it may have been the chunk of ice which got under it during last heavy snow, plus speed bump, as not so long ago it sounded as if we had hit a brick as we went over it

[Pete]

>> Snazzy looking car that Pete, seems a good price - wonder what's wrong with it?

Doesn't matter what's wrong with it - it's a 3 litre twin turbo motor - I'd kill myself first time I took it out... 

[Fly]

I'd sooner drive the car you have Pete. Nice reliable motor that one :-)
Well, should be ;-) I drove one for a couple of years as a taxi :-)

[Old Cruser]

I'm thinking in the area where you live Pete there are properties which are 'let out as bedsits etc'?
I'm thinking of Queen Street as one?

I think these types of properties can bring the sometimes not so desirable people as can flats.

Unfortunately the decent quieter living people who also live in the area get the problems from this.
We also just need 'one' family to move onto our street and they could put end to the peace and tranquility.

For years I christened people opposite side of the road just a little way down as 'the bats' - as every evening around 9pm when my kids were in bed theirs were let out to play - and I'm not talking teenagers these were young children in primary school or younger.
No idea what the reason for that was but it didn't help mine to go to sleep because of the racket they made.

[Stuart]

I'm thinking in the area where you live Pete there are properties which are 'let out as bedsits etc'?
I'm thinking of Queen Street as one?

I think these types of properties can bring the sometimes not so desirable people as can flats.

As the parent of a daughter who lives in a Queen Street bedsit and doesn't have a cupboard full of paint stripper, I think that's a bit of a broad generalisation. Not everyone who lives on Albion Road, say, will be mass murderers who have bodies in the garden, but their houses all look a bit like Fred West's did!

[Old Cruser]

As the parent of a daughter who lives in a Queen Street bedsit and doesn't have a cupboard full of paint stripper, I think that's a bit of a broad generalisation. Not everyone who lives on Albion Road, say, will be mass murderers who have bodies in the garden, but their houses all look a bit like Fred West's did!

Yes it was a broad generalisation, I did not say everyone, as I said later in the post - it just needs 'one family/or resident' if you like, to disrupt a neighbourhood anywhere and  were there are flats/ bedsits these will have a higher chance of having problems, purley because there will be more seperate individuals living there.
I have seen one quiet street turned into not so desirable places just because of one family (not so long ago had one in our village).
 We can never lump everyone into the same category Stuart purley because of where they live, I was not saying that